Do you think illegal immigrants should be able to use welfare/public assistance?

SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - I did say no one. And I have now clarified what I meant. Are you still unclear?

SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - All that racism and you still stay there. Do you mind if I check your profile and sent a copy to your local newspaper, just in case they don't realize all this racism is going on and want to report it to the DOJ.

OK, must have picked that up when I googled your name and read the associated news article.

You want to talk about freeloaders? The majority of people on welfare are white. That is a fact. Whites account for over half of the population and I'm not talking about the employed. Read more.

MSG Steve Wiersgalla - I'm all for them to read and learn the Constitution, but hell, even some Americans don't know it or have even read it for that matter. Being born in Mexico, I became a citizen not because I had to, but because I want it to. It pained the living crap out of me when I saw soldiers who were born here running inside so they wouldn't have to salute the flag at revile. Being an American to me is an honor, wish more natural born Americans saw it that way too.

SGT (Join to see) - They do SGT Vega, they too see it as an honor even if they don't know it..... haha. Part of the lessons to learn are that when you fight for America your fighting for the idiots too. Running from revile is sometimes just an indication of laziness. Being spoiled or lazy is sometimes an American pass time... :)

Roger that.

We have deaf politicians worried about building their voting bloc and growing their personal wealth along the way, that's why it's so hard to understand the real meaning of illegal.

MSgt George Cater - same here- patriotism comes in all forms and from both genders. Meryl who??LOL

The only Hollywood actress I can think of the compete with that would be Bea Arthur as she's a WM, but she passed in '09.
GySgt Melissa Gravila -

MSgt George Cater - true that!!
S/F

MSgt George Cater - Bea Arthur was a BAM. Good for her, RIP Marine

SPC Casey Ashfield - That's a couple semi-skilled truck driver jobs for legal immigrants.

Sanctuary cities and states reports squat to the feds..................

How do you know their immigration status just by their language? I grew up with a lot of people whose parents legally immigrated or were legal residents but could barely speak English. US citizens don't have a language requirement and there's a hospital in Brooklyn that many day laborers go to on Friday evenings because that's when they don't have any work, but they aren't illegal. Many are born American citizens from PR.

I'm also bothered that race was even made an issue here. There are tons of illegal immigrants who are white coming in from Eastern Europe. It just doesn't get as much press attention. Just saying, don't make assumptions by someone's language or supposed race.

Do you know much about the U.S. citizenship test? My wife is now a U.S. citizen that was born in Ukraine. She never was an illegal alien but you don't pass the U.S. citizenship test without passing the written and verbal test in English. Don't pass off that nonsense about "How about the illegals from Europe" and other such nonsense putting a racial element in there. Illegals, regardless of race are ILLEGALS. I've also seen so many posts that the majority of illegals are from overstays of visas. That's only a changing statistic. What's NOT reported is that the VAST majority of overstays of visitor visas are only temporary and many of only days but they're still reported as being in the U.S. illegally. They're not intentional and not a planned permanent stay. Do you think someone here illegally is reporting that to U.S. Customs? Most of the overstays are errors by the traveler.

Why would you want all these residents to become voting citizens when our beloved government can squeeze taxes out of them without having to pay back a variety of benefits, welfare programs included?

Legal residents DO HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE on their visa. After every couple of years, they have to renew it.
There are no laws forcing them to become citizens because frankly, it benefits the country to have more residents than citizens.

A resident can get deported over a DUI, even if it was over a technicality (falling asleep in your car after drinking two beers without the keys in the ignition), a resident can be kicked out during a time of war, and residents don't get to leech off the government the way citizens do.

On the other hand, it's quite foolish for residents to remain as non-citizens.

First of all, Joe, they’re already Americans. It’s just trying to get them to obey U.S. law which is very difficult since liberal politicians defend them in order to rebuild a fractured voting bloc.

SFC William Adamek - Well then you wouldn't have your favorite stars making movies in Hollywood would you? Levity there. Many legal permanent residents don't want to give up their citizenship of their home countries but have to work fulltime in this country. You have to have permanent residency here to get a Social Security card to work or be a citizen. In some countries it keeps you from having to pay their large income taxes, even if you don't live there, if you're a permanent resident here you pay income taxes here and your income earned here counts as your taxes there, but not in all countries. Not all countries honor dual citizenship either. If you want to be a U.S. citizen, you'd have to give up your birth citizenship and yes....that means to return to visit relatives, you go through their visa process.

SFC William Adamek great point Sir

In a word, no. We should take care of our veterans, and seniors before illegals. It burns me up to go through a neighborhood, and see a Mercedes in the driveway, and three satellite dishes, on the roof of their shack. They say it's free, from the govt. Ugh! No way. American taxpayers pay for it! Like everything else.

LT Richard Lambing - thanks for the votes of confidence!

They're granted the same way un-insured are.

BTW..."God Emperor..." Laughed at that... I'm using that one later...